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   Reed Fawell 3rd

   December 29, 2020

   The collapse of Greece from its pinnacle atop classic civilization into its ultimate moral cesspool began with uncontrollable dishonestly and lying among Athenians, whether amongst themselves or others, starting around 450 BC.

   The “chronically lying Greek” soon then became a moniker worldwide: “Never Trust a Greek”, Euripides wrote around 410 BC. “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts,” warned the Romans. And, of course, lying is only the first step to a society’s moral and spiritual collapse. For the lying Athenians, the grossly expensive Parthenon was the final straw bankrupting themselves, wherein they celebrated their themselves in that temple atop the Acropolis, built with other peoples’ monies that the thieving, lying Athenians “filched” from their allies to celebrate their own hubris, vanity, pride, and arrogance on their quick descent into collapse and servitude under Sparta’s boot.

   As a result of this spectacular debacle, the American Founders’ wanted nothing to do with the Athenian model of governance, religion, and morals where “fierce pride, a ruthless lust for power, and arrogant individuality ran catastrophically through Greek history.” See for example, Alcibiades.

   Hence, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, and John Marshall wanted nothing to do with the Athenian model of governance. Surely now they would not want to have anything to do with today’s University of Virginia, and those who rule it, and their “new modern rules of honor. ” Nor would the founders want to be anywhere near the new opulent Rotunda and its vulgarity filled Lawn, and its rich oligarchs and demagogues sitting thereabouts in their luxurious squalor that rivals even the dying Acropolis of the Athenians.

   For a primer on this subject, see The Roots of American Order, by Russel Kirk.

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